David Masciotra: Political correctness is about to get even worse on college campuses

6:48 PM,
Jun. 12, 2013

Comedian George Carlin frequently challenged enforcers of political correctness.

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David Masciotra

George Carlin - the greatest American prizefighter of comedy - lampooned the idiocy of censorship in his routine, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." The targets of his joke were conservatives who opposed cultural freedom with warnings of moral decadence.

Near the end of his life - older, but no less a rebellious and hilarious provocateur - Carlin issued his own warning about the biggest threat to free speech: "It's left-wing paternalism. Years ago, we all got to expect that censorship would come from the right wing, but to expect it from the left wing - from the politically correct ...